On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 12:50:51AM +0000, Rev . Joseph Carter wrote: > Boot Manager is a little weird though with Linux. At least it was with IBM > fdisk in OS/2. Problem was that you could not ADD a type 83 partition to > Boot Manager but you could create an unformatted partition, add that, then > change its type in Linux fdisk.. In order for it to boot, you still needed > lilo on the partition, but that's no biggie. Really? I used to use Boot Manager (installed by OS/2 FDISK) and I never had this problem that I recall. These days I use the NT boot manager, which is a bit more convenient in terms of maintainence and partition requirements, but is harder to set up initially. (Use BOOTPART, though.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, hamish@debian.org, hamish@rising.com.au, hmoffatt@mail.com Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
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